SHOWBUZZDAILY OSCAR WATCH: THE WINNERS
> It’s a measure of how desperately this year’s Oscar needed some kind of surprise that the closest thing to a thrill all evening was Meryl Streep’s win as Best Actress. Streep has been winning Academy A...
THE SKED MIDSEASON PILOT REPORT: FOX’s “Rake”
Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here and Midseason Pilot Reports here. RAKE: Thursday 9PM on FOX starting Midseason TBD – Worth A Look FOX’s high-profile midseason dramedy RAKE wastes no time in establishin...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Scorpion”
SCORPION: Monday 9PM on CBS Previously… on SCORPION: Walter O’Brien (Elyes Gabel) is the leader of a group of geniuses–behaviorist Toby (Eddie Kaye Thomas), mathematician Sylvester (Ari Stidham), an...
UPDATED: THE SKED NETWORK/CABLE SCORECARD – 10/23/13
AFTERNOON UPDATE: WORLD SERIES GAME 1 ended up adjusted to 4.2, a bit below where we anticipated but still 0.6 above last year’s Game 1. Nothing else moved more than 0.1 from the morning numbers, but it’s...
The Sked: Tuesday Ratings 11.15.2016
NOTE: due to Election Day, the World Series and other preemptions, comparisons in the text are to prior Tuesdays. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Oblivion”
OBLIVION: Worth A Ticket – Dramatically Uneven, But Visually Spectacular OBLIVION is amazing to look at. Even though it takes place in the same post-apocalyptic landscape where movie and TV audiences seem to sp...
OSCARS MINUS 3: Second Choice
The odds-on favorite for this year’s Best Director Oscar can’t win. There’s little doubt at this point that if Ben Affleck had only been nominated for Best Director this year, he would have run away wit...
SERVICE DISRUPTION
>We apologize for last night’s and this morning’s service disruption (due to failures with our hosting service). We are in the process of recovering yesterday’s posting, including THE SKED (our predictions for...
SHOWBUZZDAILY’s State of the Studio: Warner Bros.
We’re continuing our midsummer look at how Hollywood’s studios are faring in 2013. Yesterday we scrutinized Disney, and today our gaze is fixed on Warner Bros. It’s been a tumultuous summer at Warners...
SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Wednesday 1.25.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED
BROADCAST FINALS ABC: Reruns at 0.42/0.30/0.26/0.27/0.22. CBS: THE PRICE IS RIGHT AT NIGHT rose 0.11 to 0.64, LINGO gained 0.09 to 0.47, and TOUGH AS NAILS was up 0.07 to 0.34. NBC: Reruns at 0.35/0.32/0.34. FOX: ...
THE SKED: “A Gifted Man” Update
>Deadline is reporting that Pablo Schreiber, who guest starred on the pilot for CBS’s A GIFTED MAN (review here) has been upped to a regular. Schreiber played a new age-y healer in the pilot, visited by Patrick Wils...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Passion”
It’s unfortunately not saying very much to note that PASSION is the best eeffort Brian DePalma has managed to turn in lately. DePalma’s Redacted was one of the worst films by a major American director in recent...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Ray Donovan”
RAY DONOVAN: Sunday 9PM on Showtime When a car crashes into a Los Angeles wall in the Season 4 premiere of Showtime’s sizable if somewhat inexplicable hit RAY DONOVAN, it doesn’t just crash into a wall: i...
THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/17/12
Only one of last week’s premieres held its number. CW: What does it say about the broadcast season when the only good news on a fall night came from CW? ARROW is looking like a genuine hit with a steady 1.3, beating h...